In two months, Comet ISON will make a spectacular flyby of the sun. First, though, it has to fly by Mars. The sungrazing comet is approaching the Red Planet for a 0.07 AU close encounter on October 1st. Mars satellites and rovers will have a close-up view. A video from NASA details the encounter. Amateur astronomers on Earth can watch, too. Using a remotely controlled 14-inch telescope in New Mexico, Rolando Ligustri photographed ISON approaching Mars on September 28th:

At closest approach on October 1st, Mars and Comet ISON will be approximately 2o apart. While Mars is visible to the unaided eye (it shines almost as brightly as a first-magnitude star), ISON is definitely not. The comet is still far from the sun and, as it crosses the orbit of Mars, it has not yet warmed enough to reach naked-eye visibility. Reports of the comet's brightness vary from 12th to 14th magnitude, which means a mid-sized backyard telescope is required to see it. Mars and ISON rise together in the eastern sky a couple of hours before the sun. Amateur astronomers, if you have a GOTO telescope, enter these coordinates. Visually, Mars will be easy to find on the mornings of closest approach, because the planet is relatively bright, and also because the crescent Moon will be passing right by it. Sky maps:Sept. 28, 29, 30; Oct. 1, 2. New images of the comet are coming in every day. Browse the gallery for the latest views: Realtime Comet ISON Photo Gallerywww.spaceweather.com

On Sept. 27th, a meteor exploded in the skies above the US midwest. Witnesses report shadows cast upon the ground, unusual sounds, and a swirling contrail marking the aftermath of the blast. "It was the most brilliant fireball that I have ever seen!" reports Angela McClain, who sends this picture from Faith Ranch in Jewett, Ohio:

"The entire landscape lit up," she continues. "I spun around and there it was, a huge, bright green light, streaking across the sky. Even when it was gone, there was still a bright line in the sky about 20 seconds later. We were all stunned." A NASA all-sky camera in Hiram, Ohio, also recorded the fireball: movie. "This was a very bright event," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "Flares saturated our meteor cameras, and made determination of the end point (the terminus of the fireball's flight through the atmosphere) virtually impossible. Judging from the brightness, we are dealing with a meteor class object." Data from multiple cameras shows that the meteoroid hit Earth's atmosphere traveling 51 km/s (114,000 mph) and passed almost directly over Columbus, Ohio. Cooke has prepared a preliminary map of the ground track. According to the American Meteor Society, the fireball was visible from at least 14 US states. www.spaceweather.com

Breaking the quiet in spectacular fashion, a magnetic filament erupted from the sun's northern hemisphere during the late hours of Sept. 29th: movie. The explosion hurled a magnificent CME into space, and it might have an Earth-directed component. Stay tuned for updates as more data from this event is analyzed.

Published on 20 Sep 2013 Nasa video footage shows what the moon would look like as it rotates. The images are impossible to witness from Earth, because the moon is 'tidally locked' to it, meaning only one of its faces ever points toward the planet.

These timelapse pictures were captured using Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which circles the moon at an altitude of 50km

This poem was nominated by the UN as the best poem of 2008, written by an African child

When I born, I black When I grow up, I black When I go in Sun, I black When I scared, I black When I sick, I black And when I die, I still black And you white fellow ....When you born, you pink When you grow up, you white When you go in sun, you red When you cold, you blue When you scared, you yellow When you sick, you green And when you die, you gray And you calling me colored?

Giving Is The Best Communication - Thai Mobile Advert That Has Everyone Weeping (TrueMove H )

SuperBlueTaurusPublished on 15 Sep 2013Giving Is The Best Communication : The Thai Mobile Advert That Has Everyone Weeping. This Amazing Commercial From TrueMove H Thailand Will Make You Cry.

"Giving Is The Best Communication" is a stunning, beautifully executed advertisement commercial for a Thai telecom company in Thailand. Watch and see if you agree that they're selling something much more important. In this three-minute commercial, we see a young Thai boy in a market place who gets caught stealing painkillers. As the storekeeper berates the young boy about stealing her merchandise, a soup seller at a nearby booth comes up to the boy and asks him if his mother is sick. The boy reluctantly nods yes. The poor soup seller then pays the woman the price of the painkillers and then calls to his daughter to bring the boy some veggie soup to take home. The girl rolls her eyes in a manner that lets us know, this was nothing new with her father. Watch the video to continue .....

About this advertisement (translated from Thai language)

TrueMove H always believed that "communication is the best" , we communicate through television commercials . The story in this film . Reflect the concept of TrueMove H brand that believes ... giving without hope of return was the beginning of the real. The plot was inspired . Stories from social media . Tells a story of hope for the return . Miraculously , however, get some consideration .

Because it is . Communication is the best . Even without saying a word. But the most powerful communication . TrueMove H believes in the power of giving without expecting a return. And is committed to developing new communications technologies for the Thailand to create opportunities and improve the quality of life Thailand . Every communication. Connected to each other endlessly .

The September equinox occurs at 4:44 p.m. EDT (20:44 UT) on Sunday, Sept. 22nd, when the Sun crosses the equator heading south. This marks the beginning of autumn in the northern hemisphere and spring in the southern hemisphere. On this date, day and night are of approximately equal length.

You know the equinox is near when you find yourself nearly-blinded while driving down east-west roads. Alan Friedman demonstrates the phenomenon from his hometown in Buffalo, New York.

"At the equinoxes, the sun rises due east and sets due west on my street in Buffalo," says Friedman. "One has to drive carefully!" Other signs of the season, such as the Harvest Moon, may be found in the Space Weather Photo Gallery. Happy Equinox!

Spirit SciencePublished on 9 Apr 2012 9 insights, 2 man/boys, one video and a great amount of learning that we believe will bring you closer to vibrating at the level of the divine. Its almost like we're rubbing an ascension salve on your cultural wounds. So Enjoy! - The Atlantis King

This lesson goes into the insights of ascension from the book The Celestine Prophecy. We highly recommend reading this book for those of you beginning your path or wanting new information, however in the meantime here is the abridged version of strictly insights on the process of waking up, clearing your negative habits, and releasing them to the universe to vibrate higher and changing frequencies of time, space, and matter itself!

September 20, 2013 – GEOLOGY – According to new research from UK and Swiss scientists, the core of our planet is more complicated than we thought, with layers rotating in different directions, and it all may solve a mystery about the Earth’s magnetic field that’s persisted for over 300 years.

The Earth’s core is separated into two different layers. At the centre is the solid inner core, which is surrounded by the liquid outer core — both made up of a mixture of nickel and iron. Scientists figured out the structure of the two layers decades ago, based on watching seismic waves from earthquakes passing through the planet, and they also discovered that it is circulations in the hot, liquid metal of the outer core that generate the Earth’s magnetic field. There are some things about the core that have remained a mystery, though. A study from 2005 revealed that, although the inner core rotates in the same direction as the surface, it actually rotates slightly faster than the surface. That strange result joins another curious finding, from back in 1692, when astronomer Edmond Halley (of Halley’s Comet fame) discovered that the Earth’s magnetic field ‘drifts’ towards the west by a few degrees every decade.

A new study has finally offered an explanation for these two mysteries, tying everything together at last. It started with researchers not only confirming that the inner core rotates faster than the surface, but also finding that the outer core rotates in the opposite direction. To find out what’s going on, they used the Monte Rose supercomputer to run a simulation that was roughly 100 times more accurate than any previous model of the Earth’s core. The simulation revealed that it’s the Earth’s magnetic field that’s causing the layers of the core to spin like they do. It’s providing an extra little push to the inner core, driving the added spin towards the east, while at the same time an equal and opposite reaction to that push is causing the ‘backward’ spin of the outer core towards the west. The added bonus from their simulation is that it solved Halley’s mystery as well. Since the outer core slowly rotates towards the west, the circulations within the liquid metal also rotate in that direction, and the magnetic field ‘drifts’ along with them.

The researchers are hoping that all of this will help scientists better understand the behavior of the core, and thus the planet’s magnetic field. –Yahoo News

We thought it was necessary to put together the Crystals parts into a movie like we did with the human history chapter. We've been pretty busy with our road trip and haven't had much time to work on Spirit Science, but there are a lot of things going on and its all beautiful! Enjoy!

September 20, 2013 – AFRICA - In the desert of northern Ethiopia, there’s a great rift in the ground which has long thought to have been the starting point of a new ocean, but a recent discovery has scientists wondering if they called that right, or if they’re instead seeing a whole new kind of feature forming.

(Photo courtesy: Volcano Discovery)The Afar Rift has been called ‘an ocean in the making,’ as this is where the continents of Africa and Asia are slowly spreading apart from one another. Presumably, sometime in the future, the continents would get far enough apart that water from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden would rush in and we would be witness to the birth of what would someday become a new ocean. Scientists have seen similarities between the Rift and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where magma wells up to make the ocean floor spread.

However, a research team recently discovered a massive blob of magma, measuring around 500 cubic kilometers in size, lurking deep beneath the region, and that’s unlike anything they’ve seen before. When magma rises up from deep down under mid-ocean ridges and volcanoes, it tends to form reservoirs just beneath the surface, and these reservoirs act to feed the activity of the ridge or volcano. The magma doesn’t stay deeper down in the mantle because it’s too buoyant — it gets forced upwards into the crust by the pressures around it. In the case of the magma under the Afar Rift, though, it’s quite far down, roughly 10 kilometers below the surface, and the blob is huge — extending downward to a total depth of around 35 kilometers and it’s roughly 30 kilometers wide. Also, this apparently isn’t just a recent development, as the researchers say the volume of magma implies that it’s been there for tens of thousands of years.

Although this new discovery has sparked a lot of discussion amongst geologists and geophysicists, the researchers have one possible explanation for what they’re seeing. Reservoirs of magma that gather near the surface feed volcanoes and mid-ocean ridges, and these tend to provide these formations with ‘fuel’ to cause localized or sporadic events. A huge magma reservoir that stays deep down in the mantle, like this one, could be what causes enough strain to build up in the crust to actually split continents apart. –Yahoo News

This is breathtakingly beautiful from a wonderfully talented young man in South Africa named Dan Mace. What an uplifting message we all need to take to heart in the midst of this tumultuous battle we’re all encountering. Just wonderful!ZenGardner.com

"Being a young filmmaker from one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Cape Town -- South Africa, it is hard to not be inspired by the world around me.

Recently, when shooting a documentary in a local informal settlement I was driven to create this piece; being faced with how people in this community with close to nothing can be constantly happy. They are not oblivious to crime and hardship as they live in the center of it, but yet they have created a solution to find a way to celebrate the small things.

My call to action is to challenge you to wake up in the mornings and celebrate your surroundings, it's that simple" - Dan Mace